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The Great Marques by David Simm FSWPP - part 4 of 1 2 3 4 5

by Dave Simm Published 01/08/2009

The 1932 Marmon V12 was another car I enjoyed photographing, this was the only one ever built. Howard Marmon had it designed and built in a vain attempt to save his failing, luxury car manufacturing business, but it was to no avail. Marmon ran the car for himself for many years and then gifted it to the engineer who built it. Eventually it found its way to a scrap yard and just because it was a saloon (Sedan) car, Ed Schoenthaler walked straight past it, had no idea of its history. It was Judy who wanted to take a closer look at the scrapped relic. As she started to ask questions about it Ed also became curious and so he became the first person ever to buy it, can you imagine it was almost seventy years old, already gone through a great working life and found its way to scrap yard just before being sold for the first time.

The Schoenthalers spent quite a sizable sum getting the Marmon back to concourse condition, moreover they won best of show wherever they took it from Daytona Beach to California - it even attracted the attention of Jay Leno. Last year the Marmon sold at auction for $810,000, I have to say I missed her, I first walked into the museum to shoot the Horch and straight away asked about the V12 and that was then Ed told me about the sale.

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